PETROLEUM

PETROLEUM

(Crude Rock Oil)

Petr.

People with a dark strumous diathesis suffer from catarrhal conditions, gastric acidity, and skin eruptions. Skin symptoms are pronounced, affecting sweat and oil glands, and ailments worsen in winter. Issues arise from traveling in cars, carriages, or ships, leading to lingering gastric and lung problems, and chronic diarrhea. Long-lasting complaints often follow mental states like fright and vexation. Chlorosis in young girls, with or without gastric ulcers, is common.

Mind: Aggravation from mental emotions. Confusion in familiar streets, feeling doubled or accompanied. A sense of impending death and urgency to settle affairs. Irritable, easily offended, and vexed. Low-spirited, with dim vision.

Head: Sensitive to cold breezes, feeling numb and heavy. Vertigo on rising, as if intoxicated or seasick. Moist scalp eruptions, worse on the back and ears, with a sore and numb scalp. Headache relieved by holding temples, provoked by shaking or coughing. Use thirtieth potency.

Eyes: Loss of eyelashes. Dim, farsighted vision, difficulty reading fine print. Blenorrhea of the lachrymal sac, marginal blepharitis, fissured canthi, and dry, scurfy skin around the eyes.

Ears: Noise is unbearable, especially with multiple speakers. Eczema and intense itching in and behind the ears, with sore parts and fissures in the meatus. Dry catarrh, with deafness, ringing, and cracking sounds. Chronic Eustachian catarrh and diminished hearing.

Nose: Ulcerated, cracked, and burning nostrils, with an itchy tip. Epistaxis and ozena with scabs and muco-purulent discharge.

Face: Dry and constricted, as if covered with albumin.

Stomach: Heartburn with hot, sour eructation and distention. Emptiness sensation, aversion to fatty foods and meat, worse after eating cabbage. Hunger after stool, nausea with mouth water, and gastralgia when the stomach is empty, relieved by constant eating. Ravenous hunger, especially at night, with a garlic odor.

Stool: Daytime diarrhea, watery and gushing, with itchy anus. Diarrhea after eating cabbage, accompanied by an empty stomach feeling.

Male: Herpetic eruptions on the perineum, inflamed and swollen prostate, and itchy urethra.

Female: Throbbing in the head before menses, profuse albuminous leucorrhea, sore and moist genitals, moisture sensation, and itchy, mealy nipple coating.

Respiratory: Hoarseness, dry cough with chest oppression at night, and cough-induced headache. Chest oppression worsens in cold air, with dry night cough, croup, and laryngeal diphtheria.

Heart: Sensation of coldness, fainting with heat flushes, and palpitations.

Back: Painful nape of neck, lumbosacral weakness, and painful coccyx.

Extremities: Chronic sprains, fetid sweat in axillae, stiff knees, rough and cracked fingers, scalding knee sensation, and joint cracking.

Fever: Chilliness followed by sweat, heat flushes on the face and head, worse at night, and perspiration on feet and axillae.

Skin: Nighttime itching, moist chilblains, bed sores, sensitive and dry skin, rough and cracked, leathery texture, herpes, easily suppurating scratches, intertrigo, psoriasis of hands, thick greenish crusts, burning and itching, raw cracks, eczema, and winter-worsened rhagades.

Modalities: Worse in dampness, before and during thunderstorms, from riding in cars, passive motion, winter, eating, and mental states. Better in warm air, lying with head high, and dry weather.

Relationship: Compare with Carb-v., Graph., Sulph., Phos. Complementary: Sep. Antidotes: Nux-v., Cocc.